low-end octane2? (was: Re: [rescue] octane question)

[Big Endian]

>Poop.  If it was easy, everyone would be able to do it.  MickeySoft made OS
>installation easy, removed server admin from thee realm of the Black Arts,
>and decreased the value of sysadmins everywhere.

Its a sad day.  But fewer and fewer of the general populace will get 
out of M$ as the years go by.  I'm glad I started w/ real 
computers(Macs).

>I, for one, am glad to see Irix installs be a PITA.  I don't mind all that
>much, and it increases my value as an employee.   SGI, for a lot of people,
>is still a Black Art surrounded by blue smoke and odd incantations -
>"xio...mips...mcad...CROSSBAR!!!!"  :)

Dude... the IRIX install is NOT THAT HARD.  Its a fucking MENU!!! I 
had more trouble installing solaris the first time.  SGIs flat out 
RULE.  The only thing I won't use them for are public internet 
servers.  For those we have sparcs and solaris.

>From a user's standpoint, it's very friendly.  And once you get it up and
>running, it's easy to admin.  But since the (overwheleming) majority of the
>population faints at the sight of a command line - they gotta pay someone to
>to do the installs...

IRIX RULES from a user side.  Fastest OS I've ever seen.  Even a 
relatively slow R3k indigo is QUITE snappy under IRIX.  I can't 
imagine why people would want/need to do the linux/bsd thing for sgis 
as IRIX is Just That Good(TM).

daniel
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